{"id":31162,"date":"2025-03-20T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=31162"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:24:14","slug":"deepmind-%e8%b5%84%e6%b7%b1%e7%a7%91%e5%ad%a6%e5%ae%b6%e4%bb%8e%e8%b0%b7%e6%ad%8c%e7%a6%bb%e8%81%8c%e5%88%9b%e5%8a%9e%e6%9c%ba%e5%99%a8%e4%ba%ba%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%ef%bc%8c%e8%8e%b7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/31162.html","title":{"rendered":"DeepMind Senior Scientist Leaves Google to Start Robotics Startup, Gets NVIDIA Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 20, 2012 - The news that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/deepmind\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >DeepMind<\/a> Pete Florence, a senior scientist working on robotics and artificial intelligence, has left Google and founded his own robotics<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Startups<\/a> --Generalist AI. According to TechCrunch, the company has secured a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e4%bc%9f%e8%be%be\" title=\"Look at the article with the label\" target=\"_blank\" >Nvidia<\/a>of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >invest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31163\" title=\"11c52bedj00stf93h003ed000sg00i9p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/11c52bedj00stf93h003ed000sg00i9p.jpg\" alt=\"11c52bedj00stf93h003ed000sg00i9p\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At NVIDIA's GTC conference in San Jose, CA on March 19th, Pete Florence, as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI, appeared on a panel of portfolio companies under NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm. NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, has been particularly active in recent years as NVIDIA has enjoyed tremendous financial success in the new era of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Florence said in an interview that the company is still in a \"secretive phase\" and that its mission is \"to make universal robotics a reality. Florence left DeepMind a year ago, according to her profile, and Kamyar Ghasemipour, a student researcher at DeepMind, has joined Generalist AI as a founding member of the technical team.<\/p>\n<p>1AI notes that, with the exception of Florence.<strong>Several former DeepMind employees have also started their own companies.<\/strong>, such as autonomous programming startup Reflection AI, biotech startup Latent Labs, Mistral, and others. Also, although not from DeepMind, the main head of Google's popular NotebookLM product left the company late last year to start his own AI startup.<\/p>\n<p>It's worth noting that DeepMind itself has a robotics division and this month introduced new AI models for robot control. In the paper announcing these models, the research Florence co-authored was cited four times.<\/p>\n<p>Although Florence did not reveal exactly what projects his startup is working on at the GTC conference, what is clear is that the company will focus on robotics. When asked what the world would look like if his startup became a huge success, Florence said, \"<strong>Our goal is to build robots that can do anything.<\/strong>, imagine the marginal cost of physical labor being reduced to zero.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 20 - Pete Florence, a senior scientist who worked on robotics and artificial intelligence at DeepMind, has left Google and founded his own robotics startup, Generalist AI, which TechCrunch has learned has received an investment from NVIDIA. TechCrunch has learned that the company has received an investment from NVIDIA. Pete Florence, as co-founder and CEO of Generalist AI, appeared on a panel of portfolio companies under NVIDIA's venture capital arm NVentures at NVIDIA's GTC conference in San Jose on March 19th. With NVIDIA's tremendous financial success in the new era of artificial intelligence, the<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[593,309,377,239],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-31162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-deepmind","tag-309","tag-377","tag-239"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31162"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=31162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}